• VICTOR MACKENZIE

  • Jun 6 2024
  • Length: 41 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Victor MacKenzie speaks about his early years; the outbreak of war; on conscientious objectors; training and arrival in Normandy; engagement with Waffen-SS at Villers-Bocage; wounded whilst crossing the river Orne; battlefield chaos and taking prisoners; reception as liberator by French and Belgian civilians; attitudes to German veterans in later life; Belsen concentration camp; his perspectives on more recent UK foreign policy, intervention in Afghanistan; his later life and career in industry and education.

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